What are the latest trends in Floriculture nationally as well as internationally? All trends start small, but once they mature, they might grow into new products that are used by large amounts of people. ASBINDO is always monitoring new trends and we would like to share them with you on this page.
Plants as Valentine Gift
Valentine is identical to the day of love and time to give each other gifts or gifts for someone who loved (parent, friend, husband, wife, or lover). The past decade in Indonesia valentine synonymous with chocolate and roses. Nowadays regardings with green issues that also increase since the last five years, it's worth trying to interpret the day of love (Valentine Day) by giving plants as a gift.
Some of plants that could be Valentine gifts are: Caladium, hypoestes, aglaonema, or indoor plant with good looking, chic, and sweet form. Below are some examples of plants that can be used as a Valentine gift. Gift of perennial plants may be more pronounced because of the philosophy of the plant can be applied in a loving relationship. Plants need to be watered and fertilized to thrive. Love also needs trust and understanding to keep it alive.
2012 Trends in Flower Arrangement and Colour Usage in Indonesia
2012 Trends in Flower Arrangement and Colour Usage in Indonesia
The global trends for flower arrangement and colour usage seems often dictated by Western countries, however consumers in Indonesia do not always receive these trends with open arms. In general one could say that Indonesian consumers have a fairly conservative taste, changes in local trends are small and do not happen overnight.
Locally trends in floriculture designs are very much influenced by the style of wedding decorations. Flower consumption for weddings is the largest market within cut floriculture industry. There is no denying that the people of Indonesia have a tendency to spend big on wedding decoration. Changes in the usage of wedding decorations and in the wedding industry in general will determine the overall trends within flower arrangements and preferred flower colour.
Flower arrangements:
Regarding the type of flower, especially for wedding decorations, the trend will be to use dense products with a lot of flowers; some decoration there will even be an absence of leaves at all. The decorations appear full almost crowded, with sometimes only one or two types of flowers. Flowers – are often cut very short and plugged very tightly into the arrangement. Clearly, this style is influenced by Maestro decorator "Preston Bailey" who also has representative offices in Indonesia. One of his decorations is pictured below (picture taken from the official website of Preston Bailey).
Decoration work of "Preston Bailey" with the dominant colour lighting blue
Reducing Sick Building Syndrome and Heat Island Effect
The increasing number of office building that use air conditioner, cigarette smoke pollution, high concentrate of carbon dioxide, as well as electronic waveradiation cause sick building syndrom. The desease occurs in some people who work at office with symptoms such as eyes irritation, headache, sneezing at the morning, difficult to concentrating, and many more.
Some of the sollution to solve that problems is to put some of anti-pollutant plants at the office. These plants are low maintenance plants. Some company have tested these plants at their office. These plants are:
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